Rania Ajami is an award-winning film writer and director, garnering awards for best feature (Garden State Film Festival alternative feature “Asylum Seekers”, documentary (Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival “Qaddafi’s Female Bodyguards”), and short (Rome International Film Festival “Katalog”). Rania has been selected by Filmmaker Magazine’s as one of '25 New Faces of Indie Film’; she has also been featured in the The New York Times, Anderson Cooper’s 360, Fox News, The New York Post and many others. Rania is a graduate of Princeton University, received her MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she held a Global Fellowship in the Performing Arts and a Film Program Fellowship.